Adventure History Blog
Charles Spalding’s Diving Bell
For 400 years, diving bells were the most common method of working underwater. The practice of lowering large airtight containers underwater, while ...
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How Deep is the Ocean? A New Understanding
Whether we fly over it, sail across it, or simply stand on a shore to stare at it, the ocean appears immense. But this is ...
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Titan to Titanic: A History of Deep Sea Exploration
Going Deeper Underwater: The Beginning Diving is about pressure, because water has weight. A cubic metre of water weighs one metric tonne. ...
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Shackleton’s Death: The Lost Letters Part 3
The Shackleton Legacy After Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Death in January 1922 he was buried at South Georgia. For the next thirty-years he ...
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OceanGate Titan – A Brief History of Imploding
Another Titanic Tragedy On 18 June 2023, the deep sea submarine Titan, owned and operated by OceanGate Expeditions sank gently beneath the ...
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Jacques Cousteau and the Race to the Deep Ocean Part 3
Jacques Cousteau, Auguste Piccard and the Exploration of the Deep Ocean The Story So Far… Immediately after World War II, Swiss scientist ...
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Jacques Cousteau and the Race to the Deep Part 2
Jacques Cousteau Leaves the Underwater Research Group The Story So Far… Before World War II, Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard had conceived and ...
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Bathyscaphe Race to the Deep
PART 1: The Underwater Balloon At the end of World War II, no one had been deeper than half a mile underwater, ...
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RMS Niagara Gold Salvage Part 3
World War II Story of 8 Tons of Gold Sunk in a German Minefield Throughout the southern winter of 1941, the salvage ...
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